PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Get Close to a Nuclear Fission Reaction!
Learn how scientists regulate a nuclear reactor in this animation-enhanced essay from the FRONTLINE Web site.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Nuclear Fission
Analyze nuclear fission chain reactions and how to prevent them as well as explore ways to control nuclear reactions through these simulations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Nuclear Fission
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What happens during nuclear fission and what a nuclear chain reaction is. How nuclear fission can be used to produce energy and the pros and cons of using that energy.
Atomic Archive
The Atomic Archive: Nuclear Fission
Several pages describing the nuclear fission process. Fission reactions are depicted with diagrams and described in words. Part of an extensive site with well-written information on nuclear power and nuclear science.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Nuclear Fission
Start a chain reaction, or introduce non-radioactive isotopes to prevent one. Control energy production in a nuclear reactor.
Chiral Publishing
Chiral Publishing: An Introduction to Chemistry: Nuclear Energy: Audio Book
Listen and learn as you view examples and explanations of nuclear energy. View examples and formulas for binding energy, nuclear fission, chain reaction, and nuclear power.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson explains the processes of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Includes simulations on nuclear fission and on isotope decay.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fission and Fusion
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will investigate fission and fusion, and discover how they play a part in nuclear chain reactions in fission bombs, nuclear power plants, and radiation in...
PBS
Pbs: Fermi Creates Controlled Nuclear Reaction
From the Science Odyssey section of the PBS web site. The work of Enrico Fermi in the development of a sustainable, yet controllable nuclear fission reaction is described. The efforts of Fermi's team at the University of Chicago are...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Nuclear Fission and Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion are reactions that convert matter into energy. Learn the difference.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fa Qs About Nuclear Power
Nuclear physicist, Dr. Charles Till, answers questions about nuclear power in this interview from the FRONTLINE Web site.
Atomic Archive
The Atomic Archive: Nuclear Chain Reactions
A couple of pages of text and graphics describing nuclear chain reactions. The means by which neutrons intiate and sustain a reaction is explained. A second page describes the complications associated with uncontrolled nuclear chain...
Other
Lcid: Comparison of Fission and Fusion Processes
From the Science Teacher's Resource Center. A data sheet tabulating the many differences between nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Technical information about the nuclear reactions, the mass defect, isotope masses, etc. is included.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Fusion and Fission
Given diagrams, illustrations, symbols, or descriptions, student will distinguish between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Nuclear Fission Energy
Resource explains and illustrates nuclear fission energy.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Forties: War and Peace
Describes the design of the first nuclear reactor by Enrico Fermi and his successful development of a self-ustaining nuclear chain reaction. Describes the evolution of the Manhattan Project and their race to develop the first atomic...
MadSci Network
Msn: What Happens in a Nuclear Reaction?
From The Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page discusses three types of nuclear reactions - spontaneous decay reactions, nuclear fision reactions, and nuclear fusion reactions. Each reaction type...
MadSci Network
Msn: What Is Required to Initiate a Fusion Reaction?
From the Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page provides a thorough discussion of fusion reactions. Fusion and fission are compared and contrasted and the mechanisms which must occur to initiate and...
Atomic Archive
Nuclear Fusion: The Hydrogen Bomb
From the Atomic Archive - the online companion to the award-winning CD-ROM. This page (and the couple that follow from it) describe the use of fusion reactions in a hydrogen bomb. A schematic diagram of an H-bomb is given and discussed....
Curated OER
Nuclear Fission
A couple of pages of text and graphics describing nuclear chain reactions. The means by which neutrons intiate and sustain a reaction is explained. A second page describes the complications associated with uncontrolled nuclear chain...
MadSci Network
Msn: How Would You Explain the Process?
From the Mad Scientist Network web site. Using a question and answer format, this page explains the differences between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission. The details of each process are sketched in simple language.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Neutrons
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores the discovery and properties of the neutron and the process of nuclear fission.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: The Graphite Reactor
This resource describes the world's first nuclear reactor and the role which it played in the Manhattan Project. Also discussed are topics such as the goal of plutonium development for nuclear weapons, the goals of the top-secret,...
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Basic Nuclear Science Information
Site provides the ABC's of nuclear science including radioactivity and gamma decay to fission and comic rays.